Word: yorkerism
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...Yorker, humorous weekly published in Manhattan, which cataloged the conversation as "another illustration of our President's amazing verbal frugality but, at the same time, evidence that he will spare a few words to keep the records straight...
Married. Peter Arno, illustrator for the New Yorker, originator of the "Whoops Sisters,'' to Miss Lois Long ("Lipstick"), also of the New Yorker; near Stamford, Conn...
Such was precisely the indignity to which M. le Président Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic was subjected by a U. S. weekly, the New Yorker. This sophisticated magazine surely possesses at least one employe who knows that M. Doumergue is a bachelor. Yet, last week, the New Yorker, published a full page advertisement of the equally sophisticated monthly Harper's Bazar in which a copy of the Bazar was shown fluttering down from an airplane into the hands of a doll-faced, bobbed-haired woman on a balcony. The caption: THE REAL REASON FOR THE TRANSATLANTIC...
...book by Authors Eames and Marshall appears actually to have been written by them. Miss Eames is a tall, determined younger sister of Actress Clare Eames and writes for the New Yorker...
WHOOPS, DEARIE!?Peter Arno? Simon & Schuster ($1.75). Their weekly parade in the New Yorker (Manhattan smart-chart) has long been an event?Pansy Smiff and Abagail Flusser of the muffs and flounces and awry plumed bonnets, their potato noses high in air, their cavernous, Cruikshankian mouths thrown open in something like...